Child & Adolescent Tool Kit for Healthcare Providers

Activity & Nutrition Tool Kit for Children & Adolescents

This Tool Kit is for healthcare providers treating youth in their practice. The number of overweight children has doubled in the past two decades and continues to climb.

How will this tool kit impact your practice?

Healthcare providers play an important role in helping children and adolescents maintain or achieve a healthy weight and in preventing future obesity. The Healthcare Work Group from the Missouri Council for Activity and Nutrition (MOCAN) has developed this Tool Kit to help providers effectively screen, assess and treat youth with weight issues. The Tool Kit resources summarize recommendations from the scientific literature and expert work groups related to child and adolescent obesity.

The Child and Adolescent Tool Kit contains the following valuable resources: